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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "stanley sankoh" <stanley284sankoh_ss@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:34:14 +0000
Subject: DEAR. SIR,

DEAR. SIR,

MY NAME IS STANLEY SANKOH .I AM 25 YEARS OLD .I AM THE ELDERST SON OF LATE
CHEIF FODAY SANKOH OF TUNGO DISTRICT,SIERRA LEONE.I GOT YOUR CONTACT FROM A
REPORTER THAT WORKS WITH THE MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY WHO RCOMEND
YOU AS A MAN OF GOOD INTEGRITY AND REPUTATION AND A MAN THAT CAN BE TRUSTED
IT IS LEFT FOR YOU TO BE ORIGINAL AND TRUSTWORTHY SOMEONE.

I WANT YOU TO TREAT THIS ISSUE AS A SERIOUSLY AS POSSIBLE.THIS IS MY LIFE
AND MY BRIGHTER FUTURE,WITHOUT THIS I AM NOBODY,I HAVE BEEN KEEPING THIS
ISSUE FOR THE PAST 4YEARS AGO,BECAUSE I DO NOT TRUST BLACK AFRICAN.YOU KNOW
WHAT I MEAN?BESIDES,I WANT TO FINALLY MOVE AWAY FROM AFRICA[ME AND MY
MOTHER]TO START A NEW LIFE OVERTHERE.BECAUSE I DO NOT HAVE FAMILY NO MORE
AND NO RELATIVES.

THE WAR SPLIT EVERYBODY.MAYBE SOME OF THEM ARE STILL ALIVE WHICH I DON'T
KNOW.OUR MIGTHY HOUSE AND THE PROPERTIES ARE NO MORE.MY YOUNGER BROTHER AND
MY LITTLE SISTER DIED DURING THE WAR .PLEASE,I WANT TO TREAT THIS ISSUE
SWHICH I AM ABOUT TO DISCLOSE TO YOU AS A CONFIDENTIAL ONCE AGAIN.MY
FATHER,LATE CHEIF FODAY SANKOH,POPULARLY KNOWN AS IN OUR COUNTRY AS GIPU,HE
WAS THE INDEPENDENT DIAMOND MARKETERIN KONO
DISTRICT,SIERRALEONE.UNFORTUNATETELY FOR US,HE WAS AMONG THE TWELVE
PROMINENT CITIZENS EXECUTED BY OUR PRESIDENT AHMED TEJAN KABBAH.MY FATHER,
ALONG SIDE THE ELEVEENTH PROMINENT CITIZEN[BOTH CIVILIAN AND MILITARY]WHERE
ACCUSED OF SUPPORTING AND SPONSORING THE FORMAL DICTATOR,MAJOR.PAUL JOHNNY
KOROMAH TO OVERTHROWTHE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT IN 1991 BEFORE THE WAR FINALLY
BROKED OUT.

THEY WHERE EXECUTEDIN 1999 BEFORE THERE ARREST,MY LATE FATHER HAS ALREADY
HANDED OVER SOME DOCUMENTS TO ME,WHICH REVEALS THAT,HE HAS DEPOSITED TWO
SEALED BOXES,ONE CONTAINING 652CARACT OF BLUE ROUGH CUT DIAMOND GEM AND
ANOTHER ONE CONTAINING A CASH WAS DEPOSITED IN THE SECURITY COMPANY HERE IN
ACCRA THE CAPITAL STATE OF GHANA WHICH CONTAINED ABOUT $16.8MILLION US
DOLLARS OF WHICH MY NAME IS THE NEXT OF KIN.MY LATE FATHER STATED THAT,HE
REGISTERED THE BOTH BOXES AS CONTAINING PRECIOUS ITEMS AS AT THE TIME OF
DEPOSIT IN ORDER NOT TO RAISE QUESTIONS.THE OFFICERS OF THE LOCAL SECURITY
COMPANY DOES NOT KNOW THAT ONE OF THE BOXES ACTUALLY CONTAINS CASH.RIGHT
NOW,MYSELF AND MY MOTHER ARE IN BUDUBURAM REFUGEES CAMP,HERE IN GHANA WHERE
WE FLEE TO BECAUSE OF THE WAR IN OUR COUNTRY.

I WANT YOU TO COME DOWN TO GHANA TO ASSIST US FACILITATES THE REMOVAL OF THE
DEPOSITED BOXES FROM THE SECURITY AND DEPOSIT HOUSE,AND LATER ASSIST US TO
BUY HOUSE IN YOUR COUNTRY,AND INVEST THE REST FOR US IN ANY BUSINESS SINCE
WE DO NOT WANT TO RE-SETTLED IN AFRICA DUE TO THE INTRUSTION MY LATE FATHER
GAVE TO ME AND FOR PEOPLE NOT TO SET THIER EYES ON OUR FAMILY.IF I HAVE YOUR
CO-OPERATION,I WILL SEE THAT YOU ARE GENEROUSLY COMPENSATED.

PLEASE INDICATE YOUR INTREST BY REPLYING TO ME ON THIS MAIL.SO THAT I CAN
PREPARE THE NECCESSARY AGGREEMENT.

I do not know to what extent you are current with events and disturbances in
Sierra Leone.But you can copy and view these sites below to know.

http://www.sc-sl.org/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3112659.stm

YOUR'S FAITHFULLY STANLEY SANKOH. S.S

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